Enemy Starships And Hazards
Source Tech Core pg. 169
The last thing you'll need for tactical starship combat—and certainly one of the most important considerations—is one or more enemy starships, starship hazards, or other threats. Many examples of such threats can be found here, and GM guidelines for building starship encounters can be found here.
Some tactical starship combat encounters involve creatures or hazards that appear on board the crew's starship while they're fighting enemies on their sensor map. GMs can find plenty of monsters and NPCs in Alien Core, published adventures, and other Starfinder books or create their own using the guidelines in GM Core. Some of the hazards appear on the starship map rather than the sensor map and affect characters directly. Many hazards presented in GM Core work well in starship combat.
Some tactical starship combat encounters involve creatures or hazards that appear on board the crew's starship while they're fighting enemies on their sensor map. GMs can find plenty of monsters and NPCs in Alien Core, published adventures, and other Starfinder books or create their own using the guidelines in GM Core. Some of the hazards appear on the starship map rather than the sensor map and affect characters directly. Many hazards presented in GM Core work well in starship combat.